It’s not about the database operator, it’s about the database deployment

Dates Nov 10, 2024 – Nov 14, 2024
Presentation Nov 10, 2024
Speakers
Jan Wieremjewicz
Jan Wieremjewicz

Senior Product Manager, Percona

Peter Szczepaniak
Peter Szczepaniak

Sr. Product Manager, former Perconian

Abstract

We’ve all heard the saying “It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey,” well the same can be said of database Operators. It’s not about which Operator you are using to deploy your database to Kubernetes it’s about what you are trying to accomplish with what you are deploying. A quick search on OperatorHub.io lists 49 Database focused Operators and 11 PostgreSQL operators. Each have their own speciality and each have their own lifecycle. Choosing one today as it’s best fitting may no longer be the case soon. I argue that ranking one as better than the next is ineffective, instead you should be focused on the ‘what do I want to do,’ with my database deployment. This talk will focus on how to use the newest concepts in scaleable database deployment to stop worrying about the “how” and refocus again on the “what”.

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Speaker Bios

Jan Wieremjewicz

Senior Product Manager, Percona

Jan is a Senior Product Manager at Percona, leading the products for PostgreSQL. He has vast experience in the development, deployment and maintenance of enterprise systems.

Professionally, he is passionate about simple solutions that solve complicated problems and user experience that maximizes the product potential.

Privately he is a foodie by day, a tech geek into graphic novels, video and board games by night and parent/spouse in between.

Having spent already almost three years in Percona, most of us learned that he has enough energy and topics to fill in any space and time.

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Peter Szczepaniak

Sr. Product Manager, former Perconian

k8s Expert

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